to think there's nothing wrong with hoops on buttered toast for lunch?

[OstentatiousBreastfeeder]

It's not great, wholesome nutritious food is it. But it's nice, and comforting, and the weather's shit outside and they like it! And it's hardly a bucket of KFC.

Well, DH disagrees, and has just had a huff at me on the phone because I'm 'feeding the children crap all the time'

He's been on a health kick for the past month - homemade raw muesli for breakfast, the works. This has prompted a few discussions about the family's eating habits as a whole recently and he feels we could all do better. I agreed, and we've been reigning in the sugar, adding more veg etc.

But apparently these devil-hoops and the shepherd's pie I made for dinner last night are just a couple of examples of how I'm not really listening to his concerns. I don't really understand how a plate of homemade shepherd's pie and a pile of fresh veg doesn't constitute as at the very least wholesome food, but maybe I'm dead wrong.

So AIBU in thinking a can of spaghetti hoops on some buttered toast is the food of Gods?, along with a varied and healthy diet (aside from the plainly unhealthy shepherd's pie ), is perfectly fine, and that he needs to unbunch his Y-fronts?

X post limited. I'm feeling the need to revisit the ravioli

One of Hugh Grant's favourite post pub snacks in Heinz Ravioli.

I've never 'partied' with Hugh nor am I am a particular fan so I've no idea how I acquired this particular piece of crappy information.

You can't beat spaghetti (and sausages) on toast (white) with grated cheese when you're in a really bad mood, which I often am after 20 minutes on MN.

Don't heathcliff. I made a horrible mistake by going back to Tizer and fish fingers.

Better not to disturb those sweet memories.

Tell him that you will listen when he learns more about nutrition. Potatoes are good and not the work of the devil.

Oh i love tizer, we still buy it from homebargains for about 20p a bottle. I've never been a fish finger fan so will gladly leave them in the past. still dreaming about ravioli though

Mmmm....once I got over morning sickness I loved tinned ravioli when pregnant.

OP it's fine. DH being very over the top.

Do you know what we had for dinner last night?
Pizza Hut pizza, cheese triangles, garlic bread and wedges.

I think the dcs probably had the leftovers for breakfast.

Tell your dh that op- makes you look like Saint- what with your white bread and carbs

I made two pork sausages mashed up with lots of grated cheese and scooped out cooked jacket potato, salt and pepper and some left over spring onions and piled back into each half and baked again for about 30 minutes last night. I rubbed the skin in butter and salt. It was lovely.

Tonight we will mostly be having a large partridge, frozen since February, and roasted then split.

I will serve it with a sauce made of sauteed chopped onion and carrot then diced bacon and chicken liver with a drop of white wine, salt and pepper. Braise for 20-30 minutes. Add stock if dry.

Serve with chicory halves braised in butter.

I am a domestic goddess who got the recipe off Saturday Kitchen last week.

I may use Alphabetti Spaghetti to spell out to health mitherer DH: EAT. ENJOY. STFU.

DD doesn't like hoops so a lazy lunch here is Heinz Tomato soup and dippy bread. Once in a while it doesn't hurt. I'm trying to ensure that my DD's diet follows an 80-20 philosophy. I want her to eat well but I do not want her to define food as 'good' and 'bad'. Nor do I want her gorging on crap because I didn't allow it. DD has at least 7 portions of fresh fruit and veg every day, wholemeal bread, portion controlled healthy meals, cooked from scratch etc. She also gets to choose something from the treat box every day. Today she had an ice cream, yesterday she had a Freddo. Nothing is banned or bad. As a former bulimic I want her to have a balanced, sensible relationship with food. Tell your dh to back off a bit and accept everything in moderation or he will do more damage than good.

Beans on toast would be better.

From the subject title I thought you meant hula hoops on toast, thus making a delicious open crisp sandwich....mmm!

I don't think there's anything wrong with your food by the sounds of it OP. Kids need carbs. Potatoes are not evil!

My kids had hoops with those little sausages in a friend's recently and are now begging me to get them in. Truth be told I want them too

If there's one thingI can't stand, it's being lectured / told off. My exH tried this once too, saying the kids were eating too much pasta at my house. This is the length of the shift he got --->

White bread in the house wouldn't suggest feeling crap 'all the time', surely? There's usually one in the freezer here so the odd slice can be used when it would be tastier (beans/hops on toast, chip sandwich, bacon sandwich, etc ). It isn't always even 50/50! Unless bread is bring served at every meal, your connection between white bread and constant crap is a bit odd!

Heinz tomato soup and dippy bread is too a 'lazy lunch'?
Is it?
Oh dear. I really shouldn't venture into food threads.

Before MN, I thought my diet was just fine.

I'm just not good enough .... Goes off to see how many naughty things she can shove down her gob in quick succession ....

Oh is he taking you out to lunch daily or has he paid a chef to come and whip up healthy meals thrice daily.

I struggle to believe two meals has lead him to ale such a comment so either he's truly lost the plot or this is symptomatic of a long term problem. If that is so then having a go over the phone is not the way to have the conversation.

He certainly shouldn't be making such comments without having some idea as to what he feels would he better. and then you would have to compromise cos some days a bit of crap is just what the Dr ordered.

If it truly is about hoops on toast then he needs to get over himself as a one off its fine. not ideal on a regular basis tbiugh

Chaise - how can it not be lazy? Open tin of ready made soup. Heat. Eat. Surely can't get much lazier. Not saying it's an issue, but it's def same level as hoops on toast

Yabu if you had that evil brown bread (ibs). Hoops on white bread..yes yanbu

Nobody has championed the health-giving properties of wholemeal pasta yet.

That is absolutely disgusting.

Very much a lazy lunch - I admit it! But served with a white buttered baguette...yum!

Spicy curry Pot Noodle.

On toast.

YANBU. Spaghetti hoops on toast with grated cheese on top. Yum!

DH fell under the twin spells of a mid-life crisis and a bonkers personal trainer.

She gave him endless laminated diet sheets advocating enormous slabs of protein and quinoa that promised eternal youth.

I don't mind quinoa that much but I did mind having to joylessly munch through huge dry tuna steaks with plain boiled quinoa.

He'd also eat bran, muesli and water or if he was feeling racy, Alpro, while I ate toast or cornflakes.

I'd rather eat the fucking laminated diet sheets. They would have been tastier.

Luckily she was sacked from the gym for anti-social bonkersness. Otherwise I would have had to eliminate her and she was so fit, that would have been difficult. However, I would have had the element of surprise.

Oh dear. I am requiring OH to eat hand picked home grown beans, herbs and vegetables this evening. He's popped home for a kebab shower first, he says.